Contracts.Love 'em or hate 'em, they ensure the cogs of a deal mesh together.By force, if necessary.Come read about the criminal side of contracts, of what can go right, wrong, or completely off the rails.Be sure to pick up the former issues of Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem as well.So Criminal, It's Good.

While the Littlest Coyote and Billy are playing in their room, they meet a baby dragon who cannot fly. They travel to the magical realm of Skyfold Castle to see if they can help him learn. And they all learn to fly with the help of new friends

When Dr. Lila Hayes, a brilliant and ambitious scientist, presents her cutting-edge research at a prestigious conference, she catches the attention of Eli, a mysterious inventor with knowledge beyond this world. Unbeknownst to Lila, Eli is a celestial being who has traveled through time to guide humanity toward a crucial technological breakthrough that will ensure its survival.As Lila and Eli embark on a groundbreaking project to develop a revolutionary renewable energy source, the...

If the city is the theatre of urban life, how does architecture act in its many performances? This book reconstructs the spatial experiments of Art et Action, a theatre troupe active in 1920s Paris, and how their designs for theater buildings show how the performance spaces interacted with actors and spectators according to their type.

A DARK WAR FOR THE THRONE…Yori Kurita, the Dragon, Coordinator of the Draconis Combine, rules her nation with an even hand and is reveling in her victories over the hated Federated Suns. Though the Dragon’s troops occupy the Suns’ capital for the first time in history, her own reign rests on a shaky foundation. Due to her checkered ancestry, many detractors call her a puppet ruler, a pretender to House Kurita’s throne, and some will stop at nothing to end her rule ...

While strolling through a piece of woodland, or perhaps along the marsh or seashore, we see a bird, a strange bird—one we never saw before. Instantly, our curiosity is aroused, and the question arises, “What is it?” There is the bird! How can we find out what kind it is? The Ornithologist of a few years ago had but one course open to him, that is to shoot the bird, take it home, then pore through pages of descriptions, until one was found to correspond with the specimen. Obviously, such me...

This book addresses Problem-based Learning (PBL) in elementary schools and reveals how this can promote elementary students’ development in critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration, and citizenship, also known as the 5 Cs. Through teachers’ interviews, the book explores which PBL strategies promote skills and knowledge gains when students collaboratively investigate authentic open-ended problems. It also uncovers peer-to-peer relational learning and other strategies used...

In 2005, the SAT implemented major revisions, including: New reading sections Analogies removed Multiple-Choice Grammar and Usage Questions Modified Reading Questions. Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT addresses all of the revisions in the test without vocabulary studies. Students will benefit from: Focused prefix, suffix, and root practice Challenging inference exercises Detailed critical reading exercises New SAT-style writing and grammar exercises Recommended for grade 10. This book is...

Your students will reap the benefits of a comprehensive study of vocabulary and gain higher standardized test scores with Vocabulary Power Plus for the ACT series! Covering critical reading passages, essays, and questions based on testing format, each book focuses on crucial practice with sentence completion, reading comprehension, inference, root practice, and more to give your students a competitive test-day edge! Vocabulary Power Plus for the ACT will help you: Introduce students to ACT te...

In 2005, the SAT implemented major revisions, including: New reading sections Analogies removed Multiple-Choice Grammar and Usage Questions Modified Reading Questions. Vocabulary Power Plus for the New SAT addresses all of the revisions in the test without vocabulary studies. Students will benefit from: Focused prefix, suffix, and root practice Challenging inference exercises Detailed critical reading exercises New SAT-style writing and grammar exercises Recommended for grade 11. This book...

Fred A. Reed’s fifth book on the Middle East and “the wars of the Ottoman succession” traces the roots of Islamic fundamentalism, as currently enacted by Hezbollah and other Islamic fundamentalist organizations, to the iconoclasts of sixth- and seventh-century Damascus.The emergence of Iconoclasm, as sudden and overwhelming as it was catalytic, was at once the product of the forces released by the new social, political and religious teachings of the Prophet, and of their encounter ...

Supercharge your virtual meetings with evidence-based practices from an award-winning teamThe shift to virtual meetings was sudden and often traumatic for businesses across all industries as they responded to the global pandemic. Rather than focusing on what worked best, they focused on what worked now . . . which meant closing up the office and being suddenly virtual in nearly every meeting, often without the tools, the training, or the expertise to optimize the n...